This year will be a challenging one for public broadcasting. A SHOW attracting such a small number of viewers, sometimes in the low thousands, runs the serious risk of defining the entire channel as a failure. It's had a few presenters over the years but Matt … But none of these things taken either individually or collectively is powerful enough to overcome the roadblock that sits in the way of success, a full hour at 9pm, which has limited audience appeal and which cannot reasonably be expected to be a building block in a night of popular viewing. One of the shows with the best track record of attracting young people is the charmingly ancient One Foot in the Grave, which at its height reached audiences of more than 17m. The editorial team of BBC Scotland's The Nine. A compromise position might be to bring The Nine forward to 7pm where it would have to compete with Channel 4 news but would avoid clashing with other BBC news services. Yet within a decade all their past arguments about competitiveness and the needs of new consumers were abandoned and they placed the same weighty anchor of a 9pm bulletin round the neck of a newly launched Scottish channel. The key to building the success of any new channel is predicated on a single word – inheritance.
In an era when people are accustomed to subscription, particularly for sport, movies and the new streaming services such as Netflix, it will be doggedly difficult to argue for a payment system that is in effect a tax on household entertainment.
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Institutionally, London rules and it is difficult for any nation or region to chart its own path but surely that cannot continue in its present form.
The broadcaster died on Sunday (26 July) after battling … This centralised thinking led to the birth of a news hour at 9pm, now known as The Nine.
LORD Hall’s resignation as director general has unlocked a worrying set of challenges for the That would be catastrophic for Scotland and its wafer-thin media plurality and so the senior management at Pacific Quay need to open conversations with Ofcom as a matter of urgency to reshape their schedule. It is in Broadcasting House where power resides. Another challenge that has been handed down to the BBC Scotland channel is the pursuit of younger viewers, part of an overall BBC strategy to bring teenagers back to the habit of watching television. Jon Stewart’s original show on MTV and the subsequent success of The Daily Show demonstrates that late night news can take on a different tone.
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I can understand why. The BBC told us so. The idea of a dedicated Scottish channel was a masterstroke, which took many people by surprise, but the BBC’s control-freakery and the need to place conditions on it at birth has proven to be a disaster. Or The Nine could be re-imagined as a late night news review show at 11pm, drawing on the many successful hybrid shows that exist around the world. But old habits die hard and rather than entirely devolve the new channel and give BBC Scotland its autonomy, a master schedule was calibrated to fit neatly into the grid of news services across the UK.
Tony Hall was raised in Birkenhead, the son of a bank manger, and graduated from Oxford We know this to be true. That is where the board of governors, senior management, network schedulers and budget allocation is centred.
Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. One obvious opportunity comes in the personality of Lord Hall himself. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then please Currently, that cannot be achieved by the BBC Scotland channel in its current form. What impact will wearing face masks have on those with hearing loss? Let me clear, this is not a cheap shot about viewing figures nor a back door argument for less news, it is simply a point of logic. For example, at Channel 4, I commissioned The Last Leg, now a general entertainment show but back then a news round-up of the days events at the London Paralympics. ... young presenters and underwhelming youth-skewing shows have failed to find sizable audiences. No matter how popular the individual shows and no matter how well planned the schedule is, the news hour condemns the channel to failure. One immediate move would be to assume greater sovereignty. A news junction at 9pm was no longer sustainable they argued.